Commons:Deletion requests/File:1943 forged German military franchise stamp.jpg

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File:1943 forged German military franchise stamp.jpg

Per Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Germany stamps are not ""official works" and therefore copyrighted until 70 years after the artist's death. In this case the artist, Gerd Aretz, died in 1973. So the image is copyrighted until at least 2,043. Same goes for the following images. Someone might be able to argue that the 3 images of postal covers are de minimis since the stamps aren't the main elements of the image, but it's never been clear to me what their copyright status is. So I'm leaving it up to others to decide. Thanks.

• File:Briefmarke Waffen SS.jpg
• File:DR 1939 687 Automobilausstellung Auto-Union und Mercedes-Benz.jpg
• File:DR 1939 688 Automobilausstellung Volkswagen Käfer.jpg
• File:DR 1939 689 Reichsberufswettkampf.jpg
• File:DR 1939 690 Reichsberufswettkampf.jpg
• File:DR 1939 695 Nürburgring-Rennen.jpg
• File:DR 1939 696 Nürburgring-Rennen.jpg
• File:DR 1939 697 Nürburgring-Rennen.jpg
• File:DR 1941 762 Tag der Briefmarke.jpg
• File:DR 1941 806 Eingliederung von Steiermark, Kärnten und Krain.jpg
• File:DR 1941 807 Eingliederung von Steiermark, Kärnten und Krain.jpg
• File:DR 1941 808 Eingliederung von Steiermark, Kärnten und Krain.jpg
• File:DR 1941 809 Eingliederung von Steiermark, Kärnten und Krain.jpg
• File:DR 1942 820 Postkongreß.jpg
• File:DR 1942 823 Postkongreß.jpg
• File:DR 1942 MiNr0823 mt B002a.jpg
• File:DR 1942 MiNr0824 mt B002a.jpg
• File:DR 1942 MiNr0825 mt B002.jpg
• File:DR 1943 843 Verpflichtung der Jugend.jpg
• File:DR 1943 MiNr0828 mt B002c.jpg
• File:DR 1944 MiNr0866 mt B002a.jpg
• File:DR 1944 MiNr0904 mt B002a.jpg
• File:DR 1945 910 Soldaten.jpg
• File:DR 1945 MiNr0908 mt B002c.jpg
• File:DR 1940 750 Helgoland.jpg
• File:SS Briefmarke.jpg
• File:Uboot.jpg
• File:Luftfeldpostmarke.jpg
• File:Einsatzgruppe B.jpg
• File:Feldpost von Hans 1942-11-26 1.JPG
• File:Feldpost von Hans 1943-10-12 1.JPG Adamant1 (talk) 05:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

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Deleted: per nomination. The artist's name is Erich Meerwald though. For those where no artist is named on the stamp, German copyright expired 70 years after publication ({{PD-Germany-§134-KUG}}), and for those with named artists, it's 70 years pma. One engraver also named died in 1978, so the German copyright for that stamp will expire at the end of 2048. The URAA restored the US copyright of all stamps, so they are all currently protected in the US. The years when we can restore the files are a mix of 70 years pma and 95 + 1 years per URAA, depending on the individual file. --Rosenzweig τ 23:11, 4 February 2023 (UTC)